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Saving My Bandwidth
By Eric | November 13, 2005 12:41 pm
A couple posts ago, I mentioned how I reworked my archive pages so my bandwidth doesn’t take such a hit. The google image search isn’t killing me anymore, but I had to fix my next biggest problem (which compared to the google thing isn’t *that* big).
My next problem is MySpace. Not the site itself, but most of the inhabitants. (Note: Bands that use myspace because of the ease of showcasing their music are cool by me. It’s great for that. DISCLAIMER: I actually have a myspace page, I created it awhile ago, and I don’t really use it. There’s next to nothing on it.) Myspace is a haven for middle and high-schoolers (or those of that mental persuasion) to hear themselves talk. It’s worse than a blog, because it’s nothing but people listing their interests with terribly-designed page with tons of unecessarily huge graphics.
My problem is that, in the process of displaying their 573857845 favorite bands’ album covers, I have over 200 idiots that hotlink to the albumcovers off this site. *HOTLINK* being the key phrase, meaning that every time someone loads their shitty profile page, I take a bandwidth hit for the image they have on their page. This adds up. Go ahead and save them to your harddrive, I could care less about the credit, but don’t steal my bandwidth to do it. But I suppose it’s asking too much for these jerk-offs to find a dedicated image hosting company. There’s tons of free ones out there, so it’s not like they have to spend money.
So in response to this, anytime I get a request from a myspace.com address for an image, the request is filled with a replacement gif image (whose file size is only 2.5k, as opposed to an average of 10.5k for an albumcover). I figure it ought to get their attention when this shows up on their page:
Moral of the story: Don’t hotlink me!
Topics: Blog | Tags: blog, cat, music, NT, Work | 8 Comments »
November 13th, 2005 at 4:51 pm
Haha, well done – serves them right!
November 14th, 2005 at 5:45 pm
nice!
November 15th, 2005 at 11:28 pm
Paris says it best …. ‘that’s hot’ 😉
November 16th, 2005 at 7:02 am
Well, I use myspace, and I was about to do the bandwith stealing thing, but I actually know how to read, and I read your article here, so I’m going to go ahead and use photobucket for this one. Sorry for almost catastrophically denting your bandwith =)
http://www.myspace.com/bdpenguin Well, I use myspace, and I was about to do the bandwith stealing thing, but I actually know how to read, and I read your article here, so I’m going to go ahead and use photobucket for this one. Sorry for almost catastrophically denting your bandwith =)
http://www.myspace.com/bdpenguin <-- incase you were wondering =)
November 16th, 2005 at 7:23 am
You sir, I believe, are one of the few myspace users that *can* read, and I applaud you.
November 16th, 2005 at 7:50 am
I do what I can. I am assuming you are the owner of this site, considering your name is the same as the person in the About section. I wasn’t sure wether I’d get an angry “I don’t need you” kind of responce, but that one was heartwarming-ish. Thanks
November 21st, 2005 at 7:26 am
I’m curious. How do you make it so that image shows up on someones website instead of the one they want to hotlink to? There is obviously some way to sniff out if someone is doing the hotlinking. I’ve never thought of that before so haven’t done my research so thought I’d start by asking you how you do it! 🙂 That’s the coolest/funniest/cleverest thing I’ve seen in a few days.
November 23rd, 2005 at 8:48 pm
YOur a fuckin’ ass. It’s weird to be teritorial over a turkey picture dick!!